Belmont Forum e-Infrastructure Coordination, Collaboration, and Communication

该奖项的目的是通过知识中心促进来自美国和全球许多国家的工程师、计算机、自然和社会科学家之间的合作，为一系列专注于电子基础设施和数据管理挑战的美国和国际活动提供战略协调，以提供有效的端到端（从基础研究到决策）全球环境研究。这些资金将用于支持美国研究人员与来自13个贝尔蒙特论坛参加国的大约120名研究人员之间的合作，并通过秘书处协调战略活动网络。知识中心活动，如虚拟工作组和现场研讨会，将重点关注两个主题领域：架构中的治理和互操作性。由此产生的电子基础设施和数据管理活动将解决全球范围内的互操作性挑战，并整合国家和国际研究工作，促进更全面的环境决策支持系统，用于全球环境变化研究。这些合作努力的一个关键成果将是增强全球环境数据之间的互操作性，这将有助于开发有益的社会产品。这些电子基础设施和数据管理活动的协调代表了一个非凡的机会，可以将互操作性、标准开发和治理的各个方面的国际领导人聚集在一起，以寻求一个概括性的世界愿景。该项目将为提升美国和全球新一代研究人员的职业发展轨迹创造机会。这些活动将使美国早期职业科学家接触跨学科、多机构的活动，重点关注环境数据和网络基础设施，他们不仅可以从美国参与者那里受益，还可以从其他13个国家的同行那里受益。

The aim of this award is to provide strategic coordination for a series of US and international activities that focus on e-infrastructure and data management challenges in an effort to deliver effective end-to-end (basic research to decision making) global environmental research by facilitating collaboration among engineers, computer, natural, and social scientists from the United States and many countries across the globe through a Knowledge Hub. The funds will be used to support the collaboration between US researchers and approximately 120 researchers from the 13 participating Belmont Forum countries and the coordination of the strategic network of activities through a secretariat. Knowledge Hub activities such as virtual working groups and in-person workshops will focus on two thematic areas: governance and interoperability in architectures.The resulting e-Infrastructure and Data Management activities will address interoperability challenges across the globe and integrate national and international research efforts to promote more holistic environmental decision support systems for global environmental change research. A key outcome of these collaborative efforts will be enhanced interoperability among global environmental data that will help develop beneficial societal products.The coordination of these e-infrastructure and data management activities represents an extraordinary opportunity to bring together international leaders in interoperability, standards development, and various aspects of governance to seek a synoptic world vision. This program will create opportunities for enhancing the career trajectories of a new generation of researchers in the U.S. and across the globe. The activities will expose US early-career scientists to interdisciplinary, multi-institutional activities focused on environmental data and cyberinfrastructure where they can benefit not only from the US participants but also their counterparts from 13 other countries.